The important factors here are the use of percent-encoding and the number of slashes following the ‘file:’ scheme name.

In order to avoid ambiguity, and for your Windows file paths to be interpreted correctly, characters that are important to URI parsing that are also allowed in Windows file paths must be percent-encoded. This includes ‘#’ and ‘%’. Characters that aren’t allowed in URIs but are allowed in Windows file paths should also be percent-encoded. This includes ‘ ‘, ‘{‘, ‘}’, ‘`’, ‘^’ and all control characters. Note, for instance, that the spaces in the example URIs above have been percent-encoded to ‘%20’. See the latest URI standardfor the full list of characters that aren’t allowed in URIs.

The number of slashes following the ‘file:’ is dictated by the same rules as other well-known schemes like http and ftp. The text following two slashes is the hostname. In the case of the UNC Windows file path, the hostname appears immediately following the ‘//’. In the case of a local Windows file path, there is no hostname, and thus another slash and the path immediately follow.

The username, password, and port components of a file URI in Windows are not used. The query and fragment components may be used. The query component will not be used when locating the resource, but the application that displays the content from the file URI may use the query component. For example, if an html document contains script, the script may read the query component of its URI when accessed via the file scheme. Similarly, the fragment will be used like a fragment in any other URI scheme.

Error LINK : fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt appear often on Visual C++ 2010 and this error don’t let you to compile and run your program coded on Visual C++. If you got this error you no need to reinstall Visual C++.

Causes:

this error appear because you have installed Visual C++ 2012 after you have actually installed Visual C++ 2010 in your system;

If you have wrong version you should go toC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\bin\cvtres.exe
and copy cvtres.exe then replace it withC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\cvtres.exe